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. >> obama has a political environment problem. he's got an intensity problem. he's got an image problem. and he's got a ballot problem. and they all add up to a challenging tuesday next week. >> image problem? that's a new one. romney campaign senior advisers are out and about, making bold statements to reporters, yet providing little evidence. >> the firewall that i think they talked about was iowa, wisconsin, and ohio. and right now, their firewall is burning. >> well, but the polling tells a much different story. it's not looking pretty for mitt romney if ohio. the president has a sizable lead back in wisconsin. and he's up in virginia by five points. the president even has a narrow lead in florida. today, mitt romney campaigned in florida, to try to make up some ground. but it may be too late. nbc affiliate wttv obtained a memo from a worried gop adviser in west palm beach. >> we obtained an internal memo from a gop campaign adviser that says early and absentee turnout is starting to look troubling. the memo's conclusion? that the democratic turnout machine
. >> obama has a political environment problem. he's got an intensity problem. he's got an image problem. and he's got a ballot problem. and they all add up to a challenging tuesday next week. >> image problem? that's a new one. romney campaign senior advisers are out and about, making bold statements to reporters, yet providing little evidence. >> the firewall that i think they talked about was iowa, wisconsin, and ohio. and right now, their firewall is burning. >>...
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this young little guy was born in one of the worst environments possible, into a country where you're going to starve to death probably, get cholera and a bunch of other diseases, probably, and if not you might get maimed. so as bad as he just told you my childhood was, okay, i got beat with a belt, okay, i went to bed hungry a few times because i was born to teenage mom. okay, my life is pretty bad. let me tell you something. nobody into the most people in here have never had really bad. this guy has it that. now he's lying there dying because his right foot blown off from his left foot is partially blown off. he is lying there, he has gangrene and now he is dying a slow, miserable death. of course, being americans what do we want to do? want to help the kid, right? but don't really want to help the kid? i'm running a safe house. i'm in the middle of bad guy territory, everybody around me is hostile. i'm risking the lives of my agents and my team if i help this young man, because that's not my job. my job is to gather intelligence, get rid of the bad guys, and do what's needed to be
this young little guy was born in one of the worst environments possible, into a country where you're going to starve to death probably, get cholera and a bunch of other diseases, probably, and if not you might get maimed. so as bad as he just told you my childhood was, okay, i got beat with a belt, okay, i went to bed hungry a few times because i was born to teenage mom. okay, my life is pretty bad. let me tell you something. nobody into the most people in here have never had really bad. this...
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the business environment in china, i think we have a problem. whether it's energy or regulation or tax policy or labor policy or legal policy or health care policy, i want america to be the best place for business. >> mr. romney wants business to come to america. i wonder if that includes all those jobs that were outsourced by companies that his firm, bain capital, invested in? fool, don't be fooled by moderate mitt, no matter how much he hopes you will. joining me is david corn from mother jones and an msnbc political analyst, who also unveiled this newest romney tape. and maria theresa kumar, president and ceo of voter latino and an msnbc contributor. thank you both for joining me. >> thank you, reverend. >> david, what do these latest tapes tell you about governor romney? >> i'm glad you played that second tape. if you listen to it carefully and think about it for a moment, it says that mitt romney wants america to compete with china for having an environment more hospitable for business, but why do businesses go to china? they go because the
the business environment in china, i think we have a problem. whether it's energy or regulation or tax policy or labor policy or legal policy or health care policy, i want america to be the best place for business. >> mr. romney wants business to come to america. i wonder if that includes all those jobs that were outsourced by companies that his firm, bain capital, invested in? fool, don't be fooled by moderate mitt, no matter how much he hopes you will. joining me is david corn from...
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because once you say, yes, extreme weather is here to say, we have to redesign this environment environment, well that's a big undertaking and it's threatening to many. i think that's where we are. >> can new york city escape the sort of national flurosis? it's a fight on the national level. out of necessity, can new york state and new york city lead on this issue because we have to, even if the rest of the country isn't ready to arrive at any consensus and make any big national decisions? >> we're going to try. you know, what we practice in new york, rachel, is because we have a -- whatever divergent opinions you have anywhere in the country we have here in new york. we just have them more vociferously and with a slightly different accent. but, look, what i want to argue, because this is no doubt a political topic, and it's a controversial topic, and it becomes one of those lightning rods. we can argue about the cause for the weather change, and we can argue if the cause was human behavior or a natural cycle of weather patterns. but you can't argue about the effect. you can argue why the w
because once you say, yes, extreme weather is here to say, we have to redesign this environment environment, well that's a big undertaking and it's threatening to many. i think that's where we are. >> can new york city escape the sort of national flurosis? it's a fight on the national level. out of necessity, can new york state and new york city lead on this issue because we have to, even if the rest of the country isn't ready to arrive at any consensus and make any big national...
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because once you say, yes, extreme weather is here to say, we have to redesign this environment environment, well that's a big undertaking and it's threatening to many. i think that's where we are. >> can new york city escape the sort of national flurosis? it's a fight on the national level. out of necessity, can new york state and new york city lead on this issue because we have to, even if the rest of the country isn't ready to arrive at any consensus and make any big national decisions? coming over the bank, but the water's coming over the bank. and when the water comes over the bank, it floods the tunnels and the subway system. that is a fact. and let's address that fact. yes, we'll argue about the cause and that argument is important because long term if you conclude that it's human behavior influenced, which i do believe, then you want to eliminate that human activity. but the effect is real and the effect is inarguable. so let's address the effect. and we've had some success in the past few years in actually coming up with concrete resolutions and moving forward rather than just plan
because once you say, yes, extreme weather is here to say, we have to redesign this environment environment, well that's a big undertaking and it's threatening to many. i think that's where we are. >> can new york city escape the sort of national flurosis? it's a fight on the national level. out of necessity, can new york state and new york city lead on this issue because we have to, even if the rest of the country isn't ready to arrive at any consensus and make any big national...
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politically that's possible but short of that i don't know what romney could proactively do in this environment to erase that? >> it is a historic storm and historic race and a moment in history. a lot of history in one sentence. thank you to ari, lawrence, joy and steve. you can catch steve on "the cycle" at 3:00 p.m. and, of course, you can and must catch lawrence -- >> oh, no. we're not so sure about that. we may not have power in the building at 10:00 p.m. >> you'll do it by candlelight because you're a good soldier. >> all right. >> the news never stops. let them have the last word at 10:00 on msnbc. see you back at noon eastern, 9:00 pacific joined by richard, curt, and nicolas. until then find us at facebook.com/now with alex. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. a lot going on this afternoon. over to you. >> thanks so much, alex. we are tracking hurricane sandy with live reports from up and down the east coast. widespread flooding already happening hours ahead of sandy's landfall. we'll check in with delaware governor jack markell and pennsylvania senator bob casey ahead and hear from bot
politically that's possible but short of that i don't know what romney could proactively do in this environment to erase that? >> it is a historic storm and historic race and a moment in history. a lot of history in one sentence. thank you to ari, lawrence, joy and steve. you can catch steve on "the cycle" at 3:00 p.m. and, of course, you can and must catch lawrence -- >> oh, no. we're not so sure about that. we may not have power in the building at 10:00 p.m. >>...
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romney rails against the deficit, he has a very different view when it comes to the environment. he thinks the rising debt is a moral issue but not the rise of the oceans. in fact, in an incredible performance at the republican national convex, he gratuitously mocked the president, even prening and pausing for laughter. >> president obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oce oceans. and to heal the planet. >> you try telling that dismal joke to those who have just watched the sea rise over their homes and communities. you try denying the fact that the number of storms yech eeach is increasing nom just in number but ferocity, too. whern up to 80 people lose their lives as a direct result of a storm like this, is the rise of the oceans a joke or is it a serious moral problem? i think we know the answer to
romney rails against the deficit, he has a very different view when it comes to the environment. he thinks the rising debt is a moral issue but not the rise of the oceans. in fact, in an incredible performance at the republican national convex, he gratuitously mocked the president, even prening and pausing for laughter. >> president obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oce oceans. and to heal the planet. >> you try telling that dismal joke to those who have just watched...
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the pentagon had declared cyberspace the environment of people and machines and networks as a new do main of war. and yet, we realize that maybe one in a thousand people understood what cyberspace was and the degree and denth of vellner abilities and so what we're trying to do is take pieces of it and explain the fund meantles and the platonic idea is that everybody from my mom and dad to congress and people around the country can understand and so maybe start the process of coming up with ways to defend cyberspace better. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on the communicate tors on c-span2. >> it's a great source of information for the public so if you want to know what is going on with legislation or policy, c-span has it covered. >> i like "book tv" because i get to see authors peeking around the country. >> c-span offers the news as it's happening. it doesn't offer commentary, it's just telling you the facts so you can make your own decision. the decisions are not being told to you and that is interesting. people who want to be engaged in solet and know what is going on. >> c-span creat
the pentagon had declared cyberspace the environment of people and machines and networks as a new do main of war. and yet, we realize that maybe one in a thousand people understood what cyberspace was and the degree and denth of vellner abilities and so what we're trying to do is take pieces of it and explain the fund meantles and the platonic idea is that everybody from my mom and dad to congress and people around the country can understand and so maybe start the process of coming up with ways...
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but it won't go unnoticed as chuck says in this media environment. >> let's look at what governor christie of new jersey had to say today on the "today" show and on "morning joe." let's listen. >> i was on the phone at midnight again last night with the president personally. he has expedited the declaration of new jersey as a disaster area. the president has been outstanding in this and so have the folks at fema. the president has been all over this and deserves great credit. i have been on the phone with him yesterday personally three times. he gave me his number at the white house and told me to call him if i needed anything, and he absolutely means it. >> that's great. >> it's been very good working with the president and his administration. >> he also responded with annoyance after a fox news personality asked him an overtly political question about mitt romney. let's take a listen. >> is there any possibility that governor romney may go to new jersey to tour some of the damage with you? >> i have no idea nor am i the least bit concerned or interested. >> right. >> i've got a job to do
but it won't go unnoticed as chuck says in this media environment. >> let's look at what governor christie of new jersey had to say today on the "today" show and on "morning joe." let's listen. >> i was on the phone at midnight again last night with the president personally. he has expedited the declaration of new jersey as a disaster area. the president has been outstanding in this and so have the folks at fema. the president has been all over this and deserves...
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while protecting our environment. across america, these technologies protect air - by monitoring air quality and reducing emissions... ...protect water - through conservation and self-contained recycling systems... ... and protect land - by reducing our footprint and respecting wildlife. america's natural gas... domestic, abundant, clean energy to power our lives... that's smarter power today. prand you're seeing that rightno enequit in amnow.a...ives... over five million new jobs. exports up forty one percent. home values... rising. our auto industry... back. and our heroes are coming home. we're not there yet, but we've made real progress and the... last thing we should do is turn back now. here's my plan for the next four years: making education and training a national priority; building on our manufacturing boom; boosting american-made energy; reducing the deficits responsibly by cutting where... we can, and asking the wealthy to pay a little more. and ending the war in afghanistan, so we can... do some nation-bui
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environment. it just is, fair or unfair. >> the house of representatives under democratic control was able to pass that cap in trade legislation. look no further than missouri or virginia where you had democratic senators who had big coal industries who were probably a little scared of actually going on legislation like that. >> we're going to take a break. when we come back, we're going to talk a little bit about cars. anyway, trivia time. we asked the last republican elected from new jersey. the answer, clifford p. case. he was first elected to the senate in 1954 and he served until new jersey republicans rejected him for a fifth term in the primary. the state hasn't elected a republican senator yesterday and chris christie was the first republican to get over 50% in over 20 years when he won. we'll be right back. ♪ i'd like to thank eating right, whole grain, multigrain cheerios! mom, are those my jeans? [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who
environment. it just is, fair or unfair. >> the house of representatives under democratic control was able to pass that cap in trade legislation. look no further than missouri or virginia where you had democratic senators who had big coal industries who were probably a little scared of actually going on legislation like that. >> we're going to take a break. when we come back, we're going to talk a little bit about cars. anyway, trivia time. we asked the last republican elected from...
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>> look, there's no question that if you think about this storm and what it's done to the media environment over the course of the week, it's blackout coverage. so the president's been in that coverage. and to some extent, much driven by the storm but he's -- he's there, he's the president on screen. governor romney has been nowhere. he's just -- it's not his fault. he's just not part of this conversation. he doesn't have anything to say about it. he doesn't have a role to play. so if you're a challenger, running a presidential campaign, in the last week to essentially be blocked from the airwaves for five straight days it's a big problem. forget whether he had momentum or didn't. it's a huge problem for a challenger. the presidential looked presidential. the combination of that the fact he's gotten policy right, substance right, optics right, and has gotten boost that he's gotten from governor christie, which has been huge, i think, not game changer, but to whatever extent you could weigh this in out -- who knows what the effect is on tangible votes -- but in terms of what's happened over
>> look, there's no question that if you think about this storm and what it's done to the media environment over the course of the week, it's blackout coverage. so the president's been in that coverage. and to some extent, much driven by the storm but he's -- he's there, he's the president on screen. governor romney has been nowhere. he's just -- it's not his fault. he's just not part of this conversation. he doesn't have anything to say about it. he doesn't have a role to play. so if...
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this is experience from the past that's helping us in this current environment. >> philadelphia mayor michael nutter. thank you so much. again, and good luck as daylight comes. >> thank you. >> and you guys are going to have a lot of work to do. the federal government has declared a number of states of emergency including an emergency in pennsylvania. this afternoon the president said officials would be ready to help as soon as the storm passes. >> we have prepositioned assets so that fema personnel are working closely with state and local governments. we're making sure that food and water and emergency generation is available for those communities that are going to be hardest hit. transportation is going to be tied up for a long time and probably the most significant impact for a lot of people in addition to flooding is going to getting power back on. the fact is a lot of emergency crews are not going to be able to get into position to start restoring power until some of these winds have died down. you know, this is going to be a big storm. it's going to be a difficult storm. the gre
this is experience from the past that's helping us in this current environment. >> philadelphia mayor michael nutter. thank you so much. again, and good luck as daylight comes. >> thank you. >> and you guys are going to have a lot of work to do. the federal government has declared a number of states of emergency including an emergency in pennsylvania. this afternoon the president said officials would be ready to help as soon as the storm passes. >> we have prepositioned...
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make, create a regulatory environment that encourages investment and certainty. that those are improving the situation. governor romney is also, however, correct that there's a long way to go. and that there are lots of people in ohio and elsewhere around this country who are unemployed or underemployed and we have huge progress. and 2% gdp growth is nothing to crow about. in fact it's less growth than in 2011 and less than 2010. >> all the economic news is about republican policies and all the bad economic news is because of democratic policies? it's funny, it's just disingenuous. >> how much of this is a problem in terms of how people feel, rachel. we see more economic optimism in the country and yet people are still feeling like the obama record is lackluster and you look at the recovery still not feeling like it's robust enough. >> and you see it just in the raw consumer confidence numbers. you see consumer confidence trending up and the unemployment rate trending down and you see the deficit dropping year to year. you see things going in the right direction.
make, create a regulatory environment that encourages investment and certainty. that those are improving the situation. governor romney is also, however, correct that there's a long way to go. and that there are lots of people in ohio and elsewhere around this country who are unemployed or underemployed and we have huge progress. and 2% gdp growth is nothing to crow about. in fact it's less growth than in 2011 and less than 2010. >> all the economic news is about republican policies and...
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investment company institute will team up to discuss the future of retirement in this daunting economic environment they will stick to the current crop of retiring baby boomers and give saving strategies for the younger generation for those golden years far ahead. this will be a new program this is thursday year the commonwealth club in san francisco. tuesday october 2nd former connecticut senator chris dodd will be here in his new role as the chairman and ceo of the motion picture association of america. he will address how last technology has moved entertainment content to the cloud it's created economic challenges to both the industry and government protecting the rights of the 2.2 million cremators and makers in every state especially in california. and then three days later, friday october 5th, massachusetts congressman barney frank will be here for a luncheon program. i should tell you chris dodd is a 6 p.m. program also at the club in san francisco. friday october 5th, barney frank will be here for a luncheon program on the of the commonwealth club can you see both dolph and frank in one wee
investment company institute will team up to discuss the future of retirement in this daunting economic environment they will stick to the current crop of retiring baby boomers and give saving strategies for the younger generation for those golden years far ahead. this will be a new program this is thursday year the commonwealth club in san francisco. tuesday october 2nd former connecticut senator chris dodd will be here in his new role as the chairman and ceo of the motion picture association...
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whether your issue is the economy and jobs, or health care or the environment, clean air, clean water are, we going to respond to too much carbon pollution in the air, which is causing global warming? all of these things are at stake, housing. name your issue. and you'll see a tremendous difference between the candidates. >> the republican, mitt romney and the republicans have been saying is that the economy is driving this and that women and other groups are driven more by economic interests, less so by concerns over reproductive freedom. what say you? >> it's true in some states, i don't think it matters, auntia. if you're looking at jobs as your number one issue and how about the issue of equal pay for equal work. when mitt romney doesn't even know if he would sign the lily ledbetter fair pay act. compared to barack obama, that was the first bill he signed. so whether your issue is jobs, which are finally coming back now, and we can't go back to those days of george w. bush and the same policies that romney is embracing, whether that's your issue or whether you think it's fair that
whether your issue is the economy and jobs, or health care or the environment, clean air, clean water are, we going to respond to too much carbon pollution in the air, which is causing global warming? all of these things are at stake, housing. name your issue. and you'll see a tremendous difference between the candidates. >> the republican, mitt romney and the republicans have been saying is that the economy is driving this and that women and other groups are driven more by economic...
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he described in gripping detail what he called the toxic environment at goldman, one that encouraged taking advantage of its clients. his book is now in stores. greg, good morning. thanks for coming on. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> in the book, you frame the leadership of goldman sachs as having made a choice between profit and reputation. when did they make that swing? >> as your viewers will know, earlier in the decade, there were a lot of things that were deregulated like complicated derivatives. it got to the point where banks saw they could make more money using their client information to bet for themselves as opposed to facilitating for a client business. ultimately by the time i left for firm, three quarters of the money was being made in the training business, as opposed to the original reason for wall street, which is helping companies raise money and merging. it's been a real revenue shift and also a behavior shift where taking advantage of clients has become the norm. >> what you write about are ethics issues, not really legal issues, per se. >> that's the gr
he described in gripping detail what he called the toxic environment at goldman, one that encouraged taking advantage of its clients. his book is now in stores. greg, good morning. thanks for coming on. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> in the book, you frame the leadership of goldman sachs as having made a choice between profit and reputation. when did they make that swing? >> as your viewers will know, earlier in the decade, there were a lot of things that were...
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people just -- it takes something like this to make people aware that things have to be done for the environment, for the situation in which we live. >> can i ask you to drill down a little bit. if president obama is affected, what do you think would be required in a second term for him to stand up more to the oil companies than he has in the first term? >> for one thing, he won't be running for re-election but it's congress that needs to talk about this. the american people need to be aware that there is a commercial interest that is fighting to hold on to us not addressing problems that that interest is causing. i've become a cynic. it's terrible. i'm a realist. >> as i became older i became more of a realist and less of an idealist but i still have some idealism to say, we can make change but we have to pay attention and right now people have more things to pay attention to than the future of climate change and yet we are in this situation because we were not -- >> not touched by it. >> we can't let you go without pointing out the month you're about to have. in los angeles, you're getting a s
people just -- it takes something like this to make people aware that things have to be done for the environment, for the situation in which we live. >> can i ask you to drill down a little bit. if president obama is affected, what do you think would be required in a second term for him to stand up more to the oil companies than he has in the first term? >> for one thing, he won't be running for re-election but it's congress that needs to talk about this. the american people need to...
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grand bargain on the big-budget issues, deficit reduction, and i think he'd love to move on to the environment. one of the big failures of his first term was cap and trade. the vote on that which really hurt democrats is something that has made them gunshy about talking about that issue, but i think there's no doubt if the president wins and he gets a budget deal, he will move to immigration and energy including trying to deal with climate change. that is in some ways the toughest issue because house republicans are willing to raise taxes in the end, i think, they're not willing to deal with this. >> dr. sachs, stay with us. chuck, thank you. we'll see you on "the daily rundown" at 9:00. up next, meteorologist bill karins with the latest on sandy's track as the storm's outer bands begin to come ashore. we'll be right back. email marketing from constant contact reaches people in a place they're checking every day -- their inbox. and it gives you the tools to create custom emails that drive business. it's just one of the ways constant contact can help you grow your small business. sign up for yo
grand bargain on the big-budget issues, deficit reduction, and i think he'd love to move on to the environment. one of the big failures of his first term was cap and trade. the vote on that which really hurt democrats is something that has made them gunshy about talking about that issue, but i think there's no doubt if the president wins and he gets a budget deal, he will move to immigration and energy including trying to deal with climate change. that is in some ways the toughest issue because...
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put 10 -- carbon tetrachloride and plutonium and things in the environment. i worked at the plant myself and got a sense of what it was like to be on the inside. one evening i came home and turn on the television there was a show on and "nightline" the expos a of what was happening at the plant for the first time i had an awareness and understanding of what was happening and how extraordinary the contamination was. on that day i decided to quit my job and then i decided i would write a book. it took me 10 years of research. i wanted to write a book that reads like a novel but have believe what noted but it is all factual but i want to write it from that perspective of all different kinds of people whose lives were affected. not just residence but some of the activist, thousands of people in colorado and beyond. i also felt passionate that we continue to deal with the legacy of the production of the environmental legacy and cultural legacy in the way that it affected people. when i looked at the plant, we would could call ourselves cold war warriors no one tol
put 10 -- carbon tetrachloride and plutonium and things in the environment. i worked at the plant myself and got a sense of what it was like to be on the inside. one evening i came home and turn on the television there was a show on and "nightline" the expos a of what was happening at the plant for the first time i had an awareness and understanding of what was happening and how extraordinary the contamination was. on that day i decided to quit my job and then i decided i would write...